Nobility and CivilityHarvard University Press, 15. okt 2004 - 256 pages Globalization has become an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Some leaders, in both the East and the West, believe that human rights are culture-bound and that liberal democracy is essentially Western, inapplicable to the non-Western world. How can civilized life be preserved and issues of human rights and civil society be addressed if the material forces dominating world affairs are allowed to run blindly, uncontrolled by any cross-cultural consensus on how human values can be given effective expression and direction? |
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... sense of shame or as its corollary , a sense of self - respect , to which the ruler , if he be truly a leader , must appeal if he is not to rely on coercive means that eventually undo themselves . For Confucius this concept of true ...
... sense of deference and respect which could be developed into the virtue of ritual decorum ; and the sense of right and wrong which , when cultivated , would become wisdom . For Mencius these four seeds , sprouts , or beginnings were ...
... Sense of the Extended Meaning of the Six Precepts ( Rikuyu engi taigi ) was not simply a trans- lation of Fan Hong's work , but rather a digest in the same genre as Xu Heng's digest of Zhu Xi's Elementary Learning ( Xiaoxue dayi ) and ...
Contents
The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama | 13 |
Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
Shôtokus Constitution and the Civil | 63 |
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